Today microsurgery is one of the fastest-growing surgical specialties, with applications including reconstructive breast surgery and "flaps" -- chunks of flesh and bone transplanted to areas where tumors or injury have caused tissue loss.

What you do is carefully map out the areas you need to excise, then design your cuts to leave skin flaps that can be gently, gently drawn together — and you use a METRIC FUCKLOAD of stitches, because the skin is still going to be very taut, and you don’t want the stitches ripping through.